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Witnesses knocking on $375M bldg. sale

In what may be the largest real estate deal this year in Brooklyn, Jared Kushner’s Kushner Cos., Aby Rosen’s RFR Holdings and a third company are in contract to purchase a portfolio of Dumbo properties from the Jehovah’s Witnesses for $375 million, The Post has learned.

Kushner, Rosen and LIVWRK, recently founded by former Two Trees executive Asher Abehsera, signed the deal on Friday, sources tell The Post.

The six buildings being sold total 1.25 million square feet. They are 90 Sands St., a 30-story hotel with 505 rooms, andindustrial buildings at 55 Prospect St., 81 Prospect St., 175 Pearl St., 77 Sands St. and 117 Adams St., each distinguished by their sand-colored brick, green-painted windows and interconnected sky-bridges.

The industrial buildings in the heart of the newly designated Tech Triangle, sources said, will be turned over vacant at closing, expected in September, and will be redeveloped into sought-after loft-style creative office space.

The 30-story hotel will remain occupied until a separate closing, scheduled for 2017, as Jehovah’s Witnesses workers are fully transitioned to a new campus in Orange County. The religious group purchased the hotel site in December 1986. The residential tower for 1,000 workers — with gorgeous views of the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty — was completed in 1995.

The six-building sale is the latest transaction for the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who moved their headquarters to Brooklyn in 1909 but have been for several years selling off a 34-building portfolio as they ready a move to suburban Warwick, NY.

The transition to private ownership is expected to be a boon for the neighborhood and a financial plus, as the buildings move onto the tax rolls and employees pay taxes on salaries, bringing in millions of new dollars to City Hall.

No one was available over the weekend for comment.